[Ivy takes the vagueness of the answer instride, not so much out of tolerance as because if he doesn't want to tell her, then she doesn't want to waste her energy on prying.
It doesn't hurt that it gives her more time to process the idea of being in the same place as people from other worlds and timelines. Theoretically, she knows shit like that can happen, but it's not really her territory.]
Dirty.
[She takes a cup of tea, looking at the liquid inside instead of the cup rather than Lockwood.]
We're pumping poison into the air and the water and the soil, destroying what's left of the natural world so a few dozen billionaires can add another zero to their net worth. We have disposable everything and it all has to go somewhere, and mostly it's going everywhere. At this point, kids are born with enough microplastics in their bodies, it's amazing they're not shitting mastercards. Forever chemicals too. Doctors are having to go back to blood samples from eighty years ago just to find an example they could look at that doesn't have teflon in it.
[Sorry, he put in the quarter and now he has to listen to the whole song.]
We have species going extinct every day, most of them plants and insects we haven't even discovered yet.
[Ivy is serious as she speaks, her voice becoming more expressive and her face and hands more animated as she continues.]
And it's all because we're too stupid to figure out we're destroying the thing we depend on to survive. Might as well put a hole in our own life raft, because that's what we're doing.
That's what things are like where I'm from.
[She frowns as she finishes, and takes a sip of the tea.]
I feel like I should apologize for this.
[Ivy takes the vagueness of the answer instride, not so much out of tolerance as because if he doesn't want to tell her, then she doesn't want to waste her energy on prying.
It doesn't hurt that it gives her more time to process the idea of being in the same place as people from other worlds and timelines. Theoretically, she knows shit like that can happen, but it's not really her territory.]
Dirty.
[She takes a cup of tea, looking at the liquid inside instead of the cup rather than Lockwood.]
We're pumping poison into the air and the water and the soil, destroying what's left of the natural world so a few dozen billionaires can add another zero to their net worth. We have disposable everything and it all has to go somewhere, and mostly it's going everywhere. At this point, kids are born with enough microplastics in their bodies, it's amazing they're not shitting mastercards. Forever chemicals too. Doctors are having to go back to blood samples from eighty years ago just to find an example they could look at that doesn't have teflon in it.
[Sorry, he put in the quarter and now he has to listen to the whole song.]
We have species going extinct every day, most of them plants and insects we haven't even discovered yet.
[Ivy is serious as she speaks, her voice becoming more expressive and her face and hands more animated as she continues.]
And it's all because we're too stupid to figure out we're destroying the thing we depend on to survive. Might as well put a hole in our own life raft, because that's what we're doing.
That's what things are like where I'm from.
[She frowns as she finishes, and takes a sip of the tea.]